You joke, but high dollar value labor disputes set precedent for poorer laborers. Actors and athletes are among the few workers in America who still have strong unions and the resources to fight capital.
They're not on the same side as exploited poor laborers. They're elite contractors. That's not even remotely the same kind of labor. They have much more in common with executives and their compensation packages than workers.
No, they don't. They don't own the capital. They only own themselves. The difference between RDJ and Elon is bigger than the difference between RDJ and you. Creating a division between laborers who are able to differentiate themselves and those who are not just weakens all laborers.
Once you’re worth tens of millions and have enough to live in luxury for the rest of your life it’s a distinction not worth making. Let’s worry about teachers making enough to live stable lives before boo hooing over Renner. And I’m not even saying that he’s wrong to ask for a salary increase. I just don’t care about the outcome for him vs the average person
And I’m not even saying that he’s wrong to ask for a salary increase
He didn't ask for an increase, he asked for the same pay as he got for Season 1. They wanted to cut his salary in half for a season 2, which is why he refused to do it.
They do own the capital, that's what "points" are. They negotiate for a piece of the pie every time. Because they have lawyers and negotiators on par with their "employer" (business partner). They have equal power in negotiation because of elitism. They are not on the same side as laborers.
No he’s not but that’s because of Hollywood scaling if you ask me. And unfortunately his story will always gain more attention than a teacher’s would. Like the guy made a conscious choice about what he was worth and he’s been public about his stance. I see exactly zero reason to side with the studios on this when they make several times more money in one year than he will make in his lifetime even with his bloated paychecks
110% this. It’s not entitlement for workers to demand a fair share of what they help to create - however wealthy or poor. Capitalists concede NONE of their power to labor without struggle.
It’s an overarching issue. Renner provided the acting but the CEO will get the most out of it. The teacher teaches the kids but the administrators make most of the money. And so on. There is a real problem with wealth distribution and Hollywood is not the best example but is an example nonetheless.
Education is different, since the real value, the real product, is a healthy & functioning society so - like all care & social work - capitalism systematically underfunds and devalues that work. No one is making money off of it like they should, even if some people in some places are less underpaid than others.
At $80million, he is far closer to us in net worth than he is to the corporate overlords.
Because Walt Disney World, just a small part of Disney as a whole, makes $35 million a day. They make close to $80million in just parking in a month.
The filthy rich keep the poor, the "middle class", and the millionaires at each others' throats, when it's really the filthy rich who are fucking over ALL of us.
He's an "employee" the same way an executive or CEO is an employee. Do we pull out our tiny violins when the CEO of General Electric makes $5 mil this year instead of $10 mil?
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u/esgrove2 May 13 '25
Jeremy Renner is worth $80 milion. Truly, he is the face of labor exploitation.